Julio Ceasar Mora and his wife Waldramina Maclovia Quinteros have been married for 79 years, and their relationship isn’t the only thing with longevity. He’s 110 years old and she’ll turn 105 in October, making them the oldest married couple in the world with a combined age of 214 years and 358 days. Guinness World […]
(CNN)Are you a pessimist by nature, a “glass half empty” sort of person? That’s not good for your brain. A new study found that repetitive negative thinking in later life was linked to cognitive decline and greater deposits of two harmful proteins responsible for Alzheimer’s disease. “We propose that repetitive negative thinking may be a new […]
The latest report on the spread of the novel coronavirus across Russia has only confirmed that the government doesnät even consider to stop spinning lies. It’s a genetic thing for Russian authorities to conceal unpleasant truth until the last moment. It’s always been this way — regardless of the name of this country or the […]
On March 30, the European Union announced it would provide substantial support to the six Eastern Partnership (EaP) countries – Armenia, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Georgia, Moldova and Ukraine – to mitigate the health and socio-economic consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic (Ec.europa.eu, March 30). About a week later, additional details of the support package were released: collectively, […]
A recession is an essential part of the business cycle. Among other things it culls the weaker businesses and redistributes capital and labor for better uses. It is painful but necessary and it ends as it began, as a function of a healthy economy. Depressions are not economic events; they are the result of exogenous […]
The coronavirus pandemic is poised to become the most searched topic in Google’s history. It makes sense that malign foreign and domestic actors would try to take advantage of this opportunity to create and spread disinformation about the virus to further their political objectives. With Russia’s long engagement with disinformation practices, it is easy for […]
The coronavirus epidemic in Russia is raging across Russia, while its government just a month ago claimed the virus hadn’t hit the country. There’s more than 12,000 confirmed cases, which is higher than the numbers in South Korea, the lack of equipment and basic means of protection, while authorities keep struggling to conceal the actual […]
With hundreds of millions of people now isolating themselves around the world, the novel coronavirus pandemic has become a truly global event. While its geopolitical implications should be considered secondary to matters of health and safety, those implications may, in the long term, prove just as consequential – especially when it comes to the situation […]
Every day, all day long, we are bombarded with updates and analyses about COVID-19, a virus that has stopped our one and only planet from “turning.” The whole world is on lockdown and almost everything has been shut down: businesses, cultural centers, religious institutions, etc. In the early 80s, I was walking down a Paris […]
The story of Russia sending its coronavirus “fighters” to Italy keeps expanding as more interesting details surface. So, if the team of the Russian military was originally invited by pro-Russian parties, not the official authorities of the country, which is an established fact, while a significant part of the equipment that the Russians troops brought […]